Homework

Suggestions from Chapter 7 (takenfromMontgomery)

7.4Aprocessthatproducestitaniumforgingsfor automobileturbochargerwheelsistobecontrolled throughuseofafractionnonconformingchart.Initially, onesampleofsize150istakeneachdayfortwenty days,andtheresultsshowninTable7E4areobserved. a) Establishacontrolcharttomonitorfuture production. b) Whatisthesmallestsamplesizethatcouldbe usedforthisprocessandstillgiveapositive lowercontrollimitonthechart? 7.16Acontrolchartforfractionnonconformingindicatesthatthecurrentprocessaverageis0.03.The samplesizeisconstantat200units. a) Findthethreesigmacontrollimitsforthecontrolchart. b) Whatistheprobabilitythatashiftintheprocessaverageto0.08willbedetectedonthefirst subsequentsample?Whatistheprobabilitythatthisshiftwillbedetectedatleastbythefourth samplefollowingtheshift? 7.18Afractionnonconformingcontrolchartwithcenterline0.10,UCL=0.19,andLCL=0.01isusedto controlaprocess. a) Ifthreesigmalimitsareused,findthesamplesizeforthecontrolchart. b) UsethePoissonapproximationtothebinomialtofindtheprobabilityoftypeIerror. c) UsethePoissonapproximationtothebinomialtofindtheprobabilityoftypeIIerrorifthe processfractiondefectiveisactuallyp=0.20. 7.33ConsiderthefractionnonconformingcontrolchartinExercise7.4.Findtheequivalentnpchart. 7.51Thenumberofworkmanshipnonconformities observedinthefinalinspectionofdiskdrive assemblieshasbeentabulatedasshowninTable 7E15.Doestheprocessappeartobeincontrol?

Reference:Montgomery,D.IntroductiontoStatisticalQualityControl,JohnWiley&SonsInc,NewYork,2009.